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Letter to Mister Rougier ( Brainforest model )

Cutting trees in the Ipassa-Mingouli forest - now under attack by your logging company, Rougier - is like slashing the portrait of the Mona Lisa.

Rougier Group: you represent a nation with the highest culture, France. Your head office in Paris is near the Louvre museum, home to the great Italian masterpiece by Leonardo, the Mona Lisa.

How, then, can you destroy a divine masterpiece like the Ipassa-Mingouli? And how can your clients, Lapeyre and Leroy Merlin, offend the good faith and good taste of their clients by selling the wood produced by your act of destruction ?

This divine masterpiece is not only beautiful; it also regulates the climate and rainfall, absorbs the murderous carbon dioxide which causes the greenhouse effect, contains the most diverse plant and animal life, and can be the source of future medicines able to save us from the gravest illnesses.

It is also home to the last remaining forest populations of two species which are our evolutionary cousins: gorillas and chimpanzees.

To destroy this heritage of humanity - vital for the survival of the planet, and fifty millions years old - is an insanity ! !

Your shocking act of destruction is producing doors and windows that will last a ridiculously short time!!

You may say that if you stop, jobs will be lost; but this excuse is laughable.

A list exists of job opportunities that will open up if the Ipassa-Mingouli becomes a nature preserve.
They range from jobs in eco-tourism and scientific research to various sustainable uses of the forest.

Now, after the Asian financial crisis, Asian logging companies will turn to Gabon, and with their labors costs being now lower than in the past, they will sell more and more to European markets due to Japan's crisis.

ALTERNATIVE USES OF THE IPASSA-MINGOULI,
IF PUT IN PRACTICE BY ROUGIER
IN CASE IT BECOMES A PARTNER OF GROUPS ACTING IN THESE FIELDS,
WILL NOT ONLY SAVE THE FOREST
BUT WILL SAVE ROUGIER ITSELF FROM THE ASIATIC COMPETITION !

Best regards

You can write to Mr. Rougier by e-mail at the address: info@rougier.fr